Mario Lanza
Also Known As: Марио Ланца, Alfredo Arnold Colozza
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: January 31, 1921
Deathday: October 07, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
Overview: Plácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and vintage recordings chronicle Lanza's life from his Philadelphia childhood to his meteoric rise as an opera singer and film actor and his tragic death. Credited with bringing opera and classical music into the home of everyday Americans, Lanza starred in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans and portrayed Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Serenade
Overview: A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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The Student Prince
Overview: A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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The Toast of New Orleans
Overview: Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-24
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Seven Hills of Rome
Overview: After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle's, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as she has nowhere else to go, she stays with Marc and his cousin, which inevitably leads to romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-21
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That Midnight Kiss
Overview: Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera. They fall in love, but on meeting his colleague Mary while visiting Johnny's work, Prudence becomes convinced Johnny is in love with her.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-22
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The Great Caruso
Overview: Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-16
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For the First Time
Overview: In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-26
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Overview: A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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Because You're Mine
Overview: A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Winged Victory
Overview: Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-22
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Singing to the Gods: Mario Lanza
Overview: A bio-documentary of the Italian American tenor, star of The Great Caruso and inspiration to the Three Tenors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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That's Entertainment!
Overview: Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Genres: Documentary Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century
Overview: Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have always treasured on record, watching footage of performances from another era. All of singers featured here have something in common (with one exception, Sutherland): they sang and performed on stage before the advent of filmed opera. . And it shows, for the first time, a few tantalizing minutes of recently recovered footage from Callas' legendary Lisbon Traviata, featuring Addio dal Passato and Parigi oh cara with Alfredo Kraus. This DVD will leave you asking for more.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-25
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